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• Iraqi troops take control of Iranian refugee camp

  - 2008-08-30

  BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday. "Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman...

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• Iran parliament approves new reshuffle

  - 2008-08-05

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's conservative-dominated parliament on Tuesday approved three new government ministers named by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite mounting criticism of his repeated cabinet reshuffles. New Interior Minister Ali Kordan, a former deputy oil minister with previous service in the judiciary and the elite Revolutionary Guards, was confirmed...

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• Iraq emerging as key route in global drugs trade

  - 2008-07-05

  BAGHDAD AFP — War-torn Iraq is emerging as a key conduit in the global drugs trade as criminal gangs exploit its porous border with Iran to channel their illicit goods to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The Iraqi authorities say that since the 2003 US-led invasion the trade...

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• India, Iran to seal gas pipeline deal 'by next month': oil minister

  - 2008-07-03

  MADRID AFP — India expects to sign a deal "by next month" on a pipeline that will transport gas across the subcontinent from Iran, Indian oil minister Murli Deora told AFP on Thursday. He said the 7.5-billion-dollar (4.7-billion-euro) project to bring gas from Iranian fields to India and Pakistan...

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• Rebels in Iran execute two captive policemen: report

  - 2008-06-27

  DUBAI AFP — An Iranian Sunni rebel group has said it has executed two more of 16 Iranian border police it says it seized two weeks ago, Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday. The Dubai-based news channel quoted a spokesman for the Jundullah Soldiers of God rebels as saying that...

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• Iran says no negotiation based on uranium suspension

  - 2008-06-21

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Saturday stressed it will not negotiate with world powers over its nuclear programme if it is required to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment activities. "Suspending uranium enrichment has no logic behind it and it is not acceptable and the continuation of negotiation will not...

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• Iran considers Israeli attack 'impossible'

  - 2008-06-21

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Saturday said it considered an attack by arch-enemy Israel as "impossible" after US media reported military exercises by the Jewish state were a possible practice for a strike against Iran. "Such impudence and audacity to have an aggression against our national interest and integrity...

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• Iran daily banned for criticising president

  - 2008-06-21

  TEHRAN AFP — A conservative daily in Iran has been banned for publishing articles and images deemed critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Tehran Emrouz, launched a year and a half ago, is close to conservatives critical of Ahmadinejad. The agency...

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• Pakistan's Khan denies selling advanced nuke blueprint

  - 2008-06-17

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Tuesday denied selling blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon to Iran or North Korea, telling AFP that Western countries were to blame. Khan's comments came a day after a former arms inspector said in a report that the United States...

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• Iraq PM in Tehran for US troop talks

  - 2008-06-07

  TEHRAN AFP — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran on Saturday for talks with Iranian leaders amid debate over a mooted deal on a long-term US troop presence in Iraq, state television footage showed. The Shiite premier was met by First Vice President Parviz Davoudi on his...

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